Stu the reader

I've ten to read have four at hand and ordered other six or asked publisher for proof of them

@nonsuchbook.bsky.social you got a few right there I didn't do a post but think I will next year this years list is the best for a couple of years already with out reading a lot of the books

Four books I have the other ones I have ordered or asked for off publishers or both and had reviewed three books from the longlist @thebookerprizes.com

On Earth As It Is Beneath | The Booker Prizes An unsettling novel that sets us among an isolated group of men whose bonds break down in ways both hard to comprehend and impossible to look away from

Love that we are maintaining the unbroken pattern of making the Booker list every two years... @charcopress.com
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Be starting the remember soldier and reading she who remains as well @thebookerprizes.com

The International Booker Prize 2026 | The Booker Prizes The longlist for the International Booker Prize 2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies, has been announced, featuring stories of witchcraft, warfare, trauma, transformation and more

thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... finally here and I've managed to order the books asked for possible proofs and have some on tbr and had reviewed three surprised women without men is there as had been out years ago

Longlist announced for the International Booker Prize 2026 supported by Bukhman Philanthropies | The Booker Prizes Today, Tuesday, 24 February, the longlist of 13 books for the International Booker Prize 2026 is announced

Olga Ravn! thebookerprizes.com/media-centre...

Not bad longlist I've read and reviewed three books this year @thebookerprizes.com

Oh a better year have three books on the blog already @thebookerprizes.com the wax child woman without men and on earth as it is beneath

Old Photographs Crail East Neuk of Fife Scotland

Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of the High Street in #Crail, East Neuk of Fife. Crail became a Royal Burgh in 1178 in the reign of King William the Lion tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2011/03/old-...

I hope it does I have a copy to read

Looking forward to the list tomorrow. Been struggling to limit my own list of guesses to 13. Also looking forward to reading with shadow panel friends again this year.

@nonsuchbook.bsky.social hi Frances

Twenty mins left

Going very slow today on the countdown to the @thebookerprizes.com longlist

Just finished this in time for the Booker international longlist later hopefully have an eligible book on my tbr when longlist comes out at two today @thebookerprizes.com

Right now have a book or can get a book from
Every country in Africa so now need to look at the rest of the world when a few more African countries crossed off

It is got that tough world for a female growing up in a male dominated world

Liking this tale of a girl growing up with a drunkard father then meeting the wrong man at school a banned Swahili classic from Tanzania

Five by five listening

Very sad news. “Roads to Santiago” alone is an astonishing work.

And his fiction perfectly captured the sad absurdity of the bourgeois male lost to romanticism.

He will be much missed.

“Memory is a dog. It lies wherever it wishes.”

winstonsdad.blog/2011/06/28/c... sad news of the passing of Cees Nooteboom the greatest Dutch writer of his generation he gave an interview to the blog 15 years ago

Yes forgot it was last century they started with the CDs

Just listening to this the first of the monthly CDs from uncut magazine 27 years ago this month

Was on one of the German book prize longlists a few years ago

Some of the books I got
At Oxfam matlock today

Auto correct often catches me
Our with names

I'm also reading Alia Gorbunova's collection of flash fiction, (Th)ings and (Th)oughts (trs. Elina Alter). This is just delightful. I dip into it whenever I need a little pick me up or diversion.

I've just started Salvador Elizondo's 'Farabeuf, or the Chronicle of an Instant' (trs. John Incledon). I'm reading it because it is referenced both explicitly (in an epigram) and obliquely throughout Ave Barrera's superb 2019 novel, Restauración, one of the best books I read in 2025.

Oh need to look this one out